"Claim the man you love!" Alpha Samuel snarled with raw, unfiltered intensity, seizing my arm and pulling me to my feet in a single, swift motion.
The old wolf's calloused claws gripped my flesh tightly beneath the heavy satin fabric, his strength a reminder of the power he still held.
"Pull yourself together, Vespera! Look at me! To be a Luna means to be the storm itself, to be the mother who holds the family together even if a tempest rages and tears the very earth apart. Yet here you are, shutting yourself away in your room like a cowardly, little young girl escaping a childish fright! You are the Black Sun, not some fragile maid!"
"You don't understand, Samuel!" I shrieked in agony, the destructive, dark power beneath my chest surging wildly, threatening to crack the stone floor beneath my heels.The anger was so intense that it possessed an energy capable of making a person's bones tremble.
